N4.5m Fraud: Court Jails Man 7 Years

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 14, 2015, secured another conviction, as one Ofonome S. Enukora was sentenced to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine by Justice I.B. Gafar of the Federal High Court sitting in Akwa, Anambra State.

The convict had earlier been arraigned on February 12, 2015 on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N4, 500,000( Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira).

Though the convict was discharged and acquitted on the first count, he was found guilty of the second count and was sentenced to seven years.

One of the charges read: “That you Emmanuel Ade Toluhi sometime in 2009 in Abuja within the Judicial Division of the FCT High Court committed criminal misappropriation to wit: dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of Two Million Naira being the payment for the unlawful sale of a two bedroom uncompleted flat situated at No 218A F.C.D.A Estate Zone B, Angwan Mada Gidan Mangoro, along Jikwoyi-Karshi FCT Abuja belonging to one Alfred Ayodeji Ogbonda and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Law cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 Abuja and punishable under section 309 of the same law.”

The accused person, however, pleaded not guilty.

Justice Bello Kawu adjourned the case till May 15, 2015, for consideration of bail application and ordered the accused person to be remanded in prison custody.

He was also ordered to pay the sum of N4, 500,000( Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) to the complainant.

Meanwhile, the Commission today arraigned one Emmanuel Ade Toluhi before Justice Bello Kawu of  the FCT High Court, Kubwa, Abuja on a two-count charge of fraud.